IN MEDIAS RACE (AND CLASS): Post-Jim Crow Ethnographies of Black Middleclassdom

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Communication
Critical and Cultural Studies
Demography, Population, and Ecology
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Inequality and Stratification
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Race and Ethnicity
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“Race is the modality in which class is lived” (Hall et al., 1978, p. 394). That's how Stuart Hall evocatively put it, emphasizing the extent to which class relations can actually and substantively “function as race relations” for working class Black Brits (and others). He was arguing, amongst other things, against the neatly reified distinctions scholars traditionally policed between class-based analyses and racial ones.

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2010-03-01
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Du Bois Review
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Review of the books: Michelle R. Boyd, Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Karyn R. Lacy, Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Mary Pattillo, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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